Q I'm in the process of tapering steroids. Can herbal medicine help with the reduction?
A Steroid tapering must always be done in cooperation with your gastroenterologist, and Korean medicine treatment can play a supportive role for the intestinal inflammation reactivation and systemic fatigue that arise during tapering. Tapering on your own is dangerous.
Detailed Answer
During steroid tapering, bodily changes such as inflammation flaring up again or temporary adrenal function decline can occur. In this period, Korean medicine treatment plays a supportive role by tonifying qi and blood and supporting intestinal mucosal recovery to ease the burden of tapering. The rate and dose of steroid reduction must always be decided in consultation with the prescribing doctor.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
In Korean medicine, we support systemic fatigue and immune recovery with prescriptions that tonify the yin-deficiency and qi-deficiency states that appear after long-term steroid use. Please decide your tapering plan with your conventional doctor first, then visit us.
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